CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Theobroma Cacao, Human Body Temperature, Aphrodisiac

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Noble Harpp, Ariel Fenster, Joseph A Schwarcz

Document Summary

Chocolate is known as the food of the gods. People prefer chocolate to sex and chocolate to meat. There are more than 500 different chemicals in chocolate. We like the texture of chocolate more than the taste. The melting point of chocolate is 36 degrees celsius, which is one degree below human body temperature (37 degrees celsius) When you put a chocolate in your mouth or you hold it, it starts melting. Swedish botanist came across the fruit of the cocoa tree, he called it theobroma cacao. Theo comes from the greek word meaning god and. Theobroma cacao or theobroma means food of the gods. Aztecs used cocoa or cocoa drinks to satisfy the gods. They would make a preparation based on cocoa as a liquid, and would offer it to the god in a special condition in gold goblets. Cocoa is very difficult to dissolve and very bitter.